changelog rotation...

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Fri Jan 12 01:14:00 GMT 2001


> From: jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin)
> Date: 11 Jan 2001 12:16:29 -0800
> 
> Now that gcc and binutils have rotated ChangeLogs, should we do the
> same for gdb?  By existing convention, the new ChangeLog file would be
> ChangeLog-00.
> 
> Is there any reason not to use it?

Yes: these ChangeLog-NNNN names all clash after truncation to DOS 8+3
limits.

I believe it is a long-term goal to eliminate such problems.  So I'd
suggest to start this now, and rename all ChangeLog-NNNN into
ChangeLog.NNNN.


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